Verb
disassemble (third-person singular simple present disassembles, present participle disassembling, simple past and past participle disassembled)
- To take to pieces; to reverse the process of assembly.
To perform the repair it was necessary to disassemble most of the mechanism.
2020 June 3, “Network News: Vote now to choose names of HS2 Tunnel Boring Machines”, in Rail, page 11:The two machines are being built in Germany by Herrenknecht, and once completed they will be disassembled for their journey to the UK.
- (computing) To convert machine code to a human-readable, mnemonic form.
Usage notes
- Not to be confused with dissemble (“to hide information deceptively”).
Translations
to take to pieces
- Armenian: քանդել (hy) (kʻandel), ապամոնտաժել (hy) (apamontažel)
- Azerbaijani: sökmək
- Bulgarian: разглобявам (bg) (razglobjavam), демонтирам (bg) (demontiram)
- Catalan: desmuntar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 拆卸 (zh) (chāixiè), 拆開/拆开 (zh) (chāikāi), 拆下 (zh) (chāixià)
- Czech: rozebrat, rozmontovat
- Danish: demontere
- Dutch: demonteren (nl)
- Finnish: purkaa (fi), purkaa osiin, hajottaa osiin
- French: désassembler (fr), démonter (fr)
- German: demontieren (de), auseinandernehmen (de)
- Greek: αποσυναρμολογώ (el) (aposynarmologó)
- Ancient: διαιρέω (diairéō)
- Italian: disassemblare, smontare (it)
- Japanese: 分解する (ja) (ぶんかいする, bunkai suru)
- Latin: distrahō
- Maori: whakahoro
- Portuguese: desmontar (pt)
- Rapa Nui: kumekume
- Romanian: desface (ro), dezasambla (ro), demonta (ro)
- Russian: разбира́ть (ru) impf (razbirátʹ), разобра́ть (ru) pf (razobrátʹ), демонти́ровать (ru) impf or pf (demontírovatʹ)
- Spanish: desmontar (es), desensamblar (es)
- Swedish: demontera (sv), montera ner
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